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A counter-intuitive thought, to be sure, but there you have it. | A counter-intuitive thought, to be sure, but there you have it. | ||
So was born “[[continuing professional development]]”: a stipulation whereby [[Mediocre lawyer|lawyers]] of any rank must periodically re-educate themselves. It has caught on: professional bodies in all walks of life now entreaty teachers, soldiers, healthcare professionals, accountants, architects and engineers | So was born “[[continuing professional development]]”: a stipulation whereby [[Mediocre lawyer|lawyers]] of any rank must periodically re-educate themselves. It has caught on: professional bodies in all walks of life now entreaty teachers, soldiers, healthcare professionals, accountants, architects and engineers all do similar exercises. | ||
To be sure, keeping up with your [[CPD]]s is not that | To be sure, keeping up with your [[CPD]]s is not that hard — a dozen or so hours, spread over a year, is all you need — though across the profession that is no small crimp on aggregate productivity. | ||
Still, law firms beheld a great marketing opportunity: a jaunty breakfast seminar for their clients, followed by a chance to [[network]] over a dried-out bagel. [[Simmons & Simmons]] took it a step further, organizing a whole day of crushing tedium wherein their clients could see off half their yearly quota in one biscuit-saturated setting. | Still, law firms beheld a great marketing opportunity: a jaunty breakfast seminar for their clients, followed by a chance to [[network]] over a dried-out bagel. [[Simmons & Simmons]] took it a step further, organizing a whole day of crushing [[tedium]] wherein their clients could see off half their yearly quota in one biscuit-saturated setting. | ||
Look: free bacon sandwiches are great. That is all most jobbing solicitors need to show up. If the room is large and dark enough there is scope for a few winks. ([[Freshfields]]’ fabulously murky auditorium off Fleet Street offers primo snooze opportunities at the back). In brighter forums, it is a chance to catch up on Twitter, [[LinkedIn]] or follow the [[cricket]]. | Look: free bacon sandwiches are great. That is all most jobbing solicitors need to show up. If the room is large and dark enough there is scope for a few winks. ([[Freshfields]]’ fabulously murky auditorium off Fleet Street offers primo snooze opportunities at the back). In brighter forums, it is a chance to catch up on Twitter, [[LinkedIn]] or follow the [[cricket]]. | ||
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===Dreary webinars [[Coronavirus|in a time of cholera]]=== | ===Dreary webinars [[Coronavirus|in a time of cholera]]=== | ||
Of course it’s bad enough having to kip through your bagel coma in the dusky recesses of [[Freshfields]]’ teatro; what proportion of a [[law firm]]’s [[webinar]] content is meaningfully conveyed when its audience — if an audience has dialled in at all — is self-medicating in hastily converted box rooms, only half-listening to the dreary monotone through one | Of course it’s bad enough having to kip through your bagel coma in the dusky recesses of [[Freshfields]]’ ''teatro''; what proportion of a [[law firm]]’s [[webinar]] content is meaningfully conveyed when its audience — if an audience has dialled in at all (commercial lawyers as a class are among the worst public speakers known to humankind, so realists among their number must add this anxiety to all their other existential doubts) — is self-medicating in hastily converted box rooms, only half-listening to the dreary monotone through one earpiece while homeschooling the kids? | ||
A small one, we humbly submit. | A small one, we humbly submit. |